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Further, the actual rate of proper motions, so far as regards that part of them which is projected upon the sphere, can be ascertained for stars at known distance. The annual journey, for instance, of 61 Cygni across the line of sight amounts to 1,000, and that of Alpha Centauri to 446 millions of miles.
See ante, i. 446, note 1. Johnson defines manage in this sense to train a horse to graceful action, and quotes Young: 'They vault from hunters to the managed steed. This scarcity of cash still exists on the islands, in several of which five shilling notes are necessarily issued to have some circulating medium. If you insist on having change, you must purchase something at a shop.
In the Punjab Province, which lies in the north, out of a total of 12,369,000 women and girls only 42,000 can read and write and at least 50 per cent of them are under 12 years of age. The total number of girls now attending school in India is only 446,282 out of a total population of 144,409,000 women, but even this small number shows most encouraging improvement during the last ten years.
The earl of Bothwell was of a considerable family and power in Scotland; and though not distinguished by any talents either of a civil or military nature, he had made a figure in that party which opposed the greatness of the earl of Murray and the more rigid reformers. * Haynes, p. 446, 448. Melvil, p. 53, 61, 74. * Keith, p. 240.
The first suffered on the gallows, glorying that he died a martyr in the cause of royalty. Gerard, before he was beheaded, protested in the strongest terms that, though he had heard, he had never approved of the design. In the depositions, it was pretended that Charles had given his consent to the assassination of the protector. Clar. Papers, iii. 247. Thurloe, ii. 416, 446, 447.
On the question whether they should treat in union with the Scots, the Commons divided sixty-four against sixty-four: but the noes obtained the casting vote of the speaker. Baillie, i. 446. See also the Journals of the Lords, vi. 473, 483, 491, 501, 514, 519, 527, 531.
Two foreign engineers whom he tempted into his service, first invented "shells." Stow, Chronicle, p. 584. State Papers, Vol. II. p. 237. State Papers, Vol. I. p. 446. Ibid Vol. II. p. 253. Lord Thomas Fitzgerald to Lord Leonard Grey: State Papers, Vol. II. p. 273.
Rural Rides, p. 386. Even M'Culloch had recommended a partial repudiation. Political Works, iv. 237. Ibid. ii. 19, 107, 250, 346; and iii. 423. See Parliamentary History, xxx., where the first use of the phrase by Hardinge is reported. Political Works, vi. 176. Ibid. 395. Rural Rides, p. 446. He complains bitterly that Ruggles had suppressed this in a second edition.
Mercy to Maria Teresa, May 16th, 1776, Arneth, ii., p. 446. January 14th, 1776, Arneth, ii., p. 414. The ground-floor of the palace was occupied by the shops of jewelers and milliners, some of whom were great sufferers by the fire.
Perhaps even the remarkable mission of a Roman fleet of twenty-five sail to found a colony in Corsica, which Theophrastus mentions in his "History of Plants" written about 446, belongs to this period. But how little was immediately accomplished with all this preparation, is shown by the renewed treaty with Carthage in 448.
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